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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. Who is Sergey Mikhaylych?
2. What do Marya's boredom and depression turn into?
3. How old is Marya Alexandrovna?
4. What causes Sergey to declare that everything is over between himself and Marya?
5. Where do Eugene Irtenev and Stepanida meet?
Short Essay Questions
1. What does Dmitri discover about the Chechens?
2. Describe Dmitri's departure from the Caucasus.
3. What is Marya Alexandrovna's situation at the beginning of "Family Happiness"?
4. How does Tolstoy describe Eugene Irtenev's marriage with Liza Annenskaya?
5. Describe the beginning of Marya's relationship with Sergey.
6. How does Dmitri go about confessing his love to Maryanka?
7. What torments Eugene Irtenev, and how does he plan to end his suffering?
8. What does Marya think about her marriage at first?
9. What causes Marya and Sergey to get beyond their jealousies?
10. How does Ivan Ilych change when he begins to make money?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Describe Tolstoy's treatment of the relationship between masters and servants in three stories in "Great Short Works of Leo Tolstoy". How are the roles defined? How do characters vary from them?
Essay Topic 2
Late in life, Tolstoy abjured private possessions and advocated communes. Does the Tolstoy of the stories value worldly possessions less than other kinds of things? Where are worldly possessions in Tolstoy's value scale? Analyze three stories and describe Tolstoy's views.
Essay Topic 3
Some of Tolstoy's characters learn and grow, but some, like Ivan Ilych's wife, remain consistently bound to their temperament. Analyzing characters who are bound by temperament, assess the theory of temperament in Tolstoy's writing. Are people free to develop, or are they bound by their characters, in Tolstoy's opinion?
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